denial !!!!

Hi Paul.

You are the second in as many days with denial issues. You have to accept that you are a Diabetic.

We have all been there and took time to come to terms with it. It is controllable and you can have a great quality of life. Try diet only first, but have a look in the non low carb forum area and the low carb area too. Ask questions after. You are going to be confused by what you read. We can help explain and help you make choices.

Ken.

hi paul you have made a great step in contacting this site and if it is help you want you wont get better ,also if you were in total denial you wouldnt even be here in the first place.have a good look around the site and ask a lot of questions .a lot of it is trial and error and you will find what is best for you.personally for myself i was diagnosed type 2 a few months ago ,i was a lazy eighteen and a half stone man who struggled to get clothes to fit him and now im fifteen stone and a lot more active and now i love looking at clothes but when i found out first i thought my world had fallen apart i certainly dont feel that way now and the extra compliments are good too best of luck dermot

Hi

I was a bit the same - I was diagnosed in October and am now taking Metformin due to increased HBA1C results. This was probably my own fault as although I was low carbing and 'good' during the week I sometimes fell off the wagon big style on a weekend.
I have found now I am on meds I am taking it more seriously (I was before like but something seems to have just 'clicked' now) which is good as I am only 28 and have many years left of being diabetic!

You will have your moment where it just all falls into place as well - for me that was realising I had made myself a bit worse. I think that when you are told you're diabetic and not on meds etc you just feel the same so try and carry on same as you were but you do have to be more careful, especially being so young as well

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Hi Paul,

It wouldn't be the end of the world if you did have to take meds for your diabetes. That would do two things: firstly it would help you to come to terms with the fact that you really do have diabetes (after all you must have something if you have to take pills for it!), but it will also help you to bring those BS levels back down to the very good 5.8 that you had them at before. Remember that going on to tablets doesn't mean you will have to take them forever. Many of us have found that by keeping BS levels low we can either reduce or stop the tablets. You could think of it as a target that will allow you to get back off the medication.

UNCONTROLLED diabetes is progressive, as you have now found!

However you've been caught on the ground floor of the progression so there's every chance that control now will prevent you progressing, and will certainly slow it down.

Your aim now becomes to die of something else before the diabetes creeps up on you again!

I suspect they have told you to cut out sugar and fat and eat more starch. Unfortunately that's the wrong way round, the starch is not much of an improvement on the sugar.

Some background reading

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/

Hi there

Just wanted to say, I was in denial for many years about my diabetes, until I got diagnosed with retinopathy (and then was still in denial until it got noticeably worse) because I thought my life would be worse if I acknowledged and took care of my diabetes. But I was wrong. My life is actually a lot better now. I feel so much healthier physically and mentally, I no longer have this internal war with myself over it all, I no longer have to live with the knowledge that I am messing up my health. In my experience, that is far, far worse than living with the diabetes itself.. Just my experience, but thought may help you

Anticarb

the_anticarb said:

Hi there

Just wanted to say, I was in denial for many years about my diabetes, until I got diagnosed with retinopathy (and then was still in denial until it got noticeably worse) because I thought my life would be worse if I acknowledged and took care of my diabetes. But I was wrong. My life is actually a lot better now. I feel so much healthier physically and mentally, I no longer have this internal war with myself over it all, I no longer have to live with the knowledge that I am messing up my health. In my experience, that is far, far worse than living with the diabetes itself.. Just my experience, but thought may help you

Anticarb

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I have a similar story except it was not me but my medics who were in denial.

Finally finding out what was wrong and more to the point what I could do about it has been a liberating (and very tasty) experience!

If you have to have a chronic disease this is a pretty good one!

ps part of my coming out of denial was finding this website. Doesn't matter how many doctors or nurses you speak to, connecting with people who are actually going through the same thing was immensely helpful to me. So you are definitely doing the right thing by going on this forum!